Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Things in December

Here is a list of interesting and oddball things that made the news headlines in December (which will last one second longer than last year - see number 14 below):

There is only one American president, but all former presidents are correctly addressed as "Mr President."

A lawsuit was brought against US President-elect Barack Obama for being too British to become president of the United States.

British monarch King Edward VIII, who reigned for only 11 months, was seeing a mystic known as "The Yorkshire Yogi" during the abdication crisis in 1936 over his wishes to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.